Joe Bonamassa Biography & News

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About Joe Bonamassa

About Joe Bonamassa

Guitar virtuoso Joe Bonamassa was checking off career milestones before he was old enough to finish grade school. At age eight, he opened for the legendary B.B. King. Four years later, he was a familiar face at venues all over upstate New York. Not long after he joined up with the band Bloodline, which read like a Who's Who of other musicians' sons. And by the time he broke out on his own, he'd landed a gig guesting for Roger McGuinn on Jethro Tull's summer tour.

With all his early success, one might wonder what was left for Bonamassa to accomplish. As it turned out, plenty. Over the last 14 years he's released (count'em) 10 studio albums, 11 live albums and seven video albums. One of the most successful has come in the last few years. In May of 2012 came "Driving Towards the Daylight," which included Aerosmith's Brad Whitford on rhythm guitar and was a huge hit. It topped the Billboard blues charts and debuted at No. 2 on the overall British charts.

The latest project from the Grammy-nominated superstar is "Different Shades of Blue," set for release on September 23, 2014. It's Bonamassa's first studio album in two years and the very first album of his career to feature all original material.

"It's been a while since I've been involved in the writing on an entire album," Bonamassa said in a release on his website. "I've really had to push myself to make everything I do better than the last project. I know the fans expect it. And I feel like I owe it to the fans to give them an original record after all these years."

Fans clamoring for Joe Bonamassa tickets can see him in Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Belgium until the beginning of October. He turns to North America beginning November 5 in Midland, Texas.